And authoritarian attacks on all of the above.

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References and suggested readings:

• Ayala Panievsky. 2026. The New Censorship: How the War on the Media is Taking Us Down. Footnote Press. 
• Laura Gerbes. 2025. Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry. Princeton University Press.
• Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce. 2024. Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America. Oxford University Press.
• Lea Ypi. 2022. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History. W. W. Norton.
• Lea Ypi. 2025. Indignity: A Life Reimagined. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• @panievsky on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

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